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środa, 26 lutego 2014

Canada is a
country in North America consisting of 10 provinces and 3 territories. Located
in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. At 9.98 million square kilometres
in total, Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its
common border with the United States is the world's longest land border shared
by the same two countries.

Did you know that:
1. At 9 984 670 sqare km and comprised of 6 time zones, Canada is huge! Canada
has been invaded by the USA twice.
2. Canada is also home to the longest street in the world. Yonge Street in
Ontario starts at Lake Ontario, and runs north through Ontario to the Minnesota
border, a distance of almost 2000 kilometres.
3. Toronto’s Rogers Centre (formerly known as the SkyDome) is home to the
largest Sony big screen in the world, measuring 10 m x 33.6 m.
4. The Blackberry Smartphone was developed in Ontario, at Research In Motion’s
Waterloo offices.
5. The Big Nickel in Sudbury, Ontario is the world’s largest coin. It is a huge
reproduction of a 1951 Canadian nickel and measures 9 meters in diameter.
6. The Mounted Police were formed in 1873, with nine officers and in 1920
merged with the Dominion Police to become the famous Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, which today has close to 30 000 members.
7. Canada is home to about 55 000 different species of insects.
8. Montreal is home to many beautiful churches and is often called The City of
Saints or City of a hundred bell towers
9. Ontario is believed to be home to the world’s smallest jail, which measures
only 24.3 sq metres.
10. The Hotel de Glace in Quebec is built every year using 400 tons of ice and
12 000 tons of snow. Every summer it melts away and every winter it is rebuilt.